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Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century by Andrew Weeks

Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century by Andrew Weeks

By Andrew Weeks

This can be a biography of 1 of the main unique and one of many least understood seminal writers of the Baroque global, Jacob Boehme.
In a interval plagued by mysteries and controversies, Boehme's visionary mysticism replied to the vexing quandaries confronting his contemporaries. His matters integrated the apocalyptic spiritual disputes of his day, the havoc wrought through the Thirty Years' conflict in his area, the disintegration of the previous heart ecu order, the increase of recent cosmic types from avant-garde heliocentrism to imprecise esoteric theories, and his pastime to specific via codes and emblems a brand new feel of the human, divine, and usual geographical regions.

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Alone with the Alone by Henry Corbin

Alone with the Alone by Henry Corbin

By Henry Corbin

"Henry Corbin's works are the easiest advisor to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a pupil of genius. He used to be uniquely built not just to get better Iranian Sufism for the West, but in addition to guard the vital Western traditions of esoteric spirituality."--From the advent via Harold BloomIbn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was once one of many nice mystics of all time. during the richness of his own event and the positive strength of his mind, he made a special contribution to Shi'ite Sufism. during this ebook, which encompasses a robust new preface by way of Harold Bloom, Henry Corbin brings us to the very middle of this move with a penetrating research of Ibn 'Arabi's existence and doctrines.Corbin starts with one of those non secular topography of the 12th century, emphasizing the variations among exoteric and esoteric varieties of Islam. He additionally relates Islamic mysticism to mystical proposal within the West. the rest of the publication is dedicated to 2 complementary essays: on "Sympathy and Theosophy" and "Creative mind's eye and inventive Prayer." a piece of notes and appendices contains unique translations of various Su fi treatises.Harold Bloom's preface hyperlinks Sufi mysticism with Shakespeare's visionary dramas and excessive tragedies, similar to The Tempest and Hamlet. those works, he writes, intermix the empirical international with a transcendent point. Bloom exhibits us that this Shakespearean cosmos is similar to Corbin's "Imaginal Realm" of the Sufis, where of soul or souls.

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Mysticism and Sacred Scripture by Steven T. Katz

Mysticism and Sacred Scripture by Steven T. Katz

By Steven T. Katz

This can be the fourth quantity in an influential sequence that provides a easy revaluation of the character of mysticism. each one presents a set of solicited papers by means of famous specialists within the examine of faith. This new quantity will discover how the good mystics and mystical traditions use, interpret, and reconstruct the sacred scriptures in their traditions.

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Livre de la vie by Teresa of Ávila

Livre de la vie by Teresa of Ávila

By Teresa of Ávila

Dans cette autobiographie spirituelle, achevée en 1562, Thérèse d'Avila montre los angeles valeur providentielle de ce qui lui arrive (son entrée au couvent, l. a. grave maladie qui l. a. frappe, ses visions, enfin sa réforme du Carmel). Consciente des contraintes de los angeles vie matérielle, elle a voulu que ses rookies sachent lire et écrire, afin d'accueillir des femmes d'esprit, capables de résister à l. a. tentation d'un mysticisme de pacotille. Elle a su unir, en un infrequent équilibre, spiritualité et motion. Si ce texte est toujours lu avec ardour, y compris par ceux qui ne partagent pas l. a. foi de son auteur, c'est en raison de sa portée universelle et de son originalité : l'exploration, par une femme, de son espace intérieur. Thérèse en a european l'intuition : dans le Livre de l. a. vie, elle ne s'adresse pas seulement à ses directeurs de sense of right and wrong mais à tous ceux qui vont los angeles lire. On découvre ainsi dans l. a. grande mystique espagnole un grand auteur.

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Voices of Gnosticism: Interviews with Elaine Pagels, Marvin by Miguel Conner

Voices of Gnosticism: Interviews with Elaine Pagels, Marvin by Miguel Conner

By Miguel Conner

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For numerous years, Miguel Conner has engaged the main admired writers and students on Gnosticism and early Christianity on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. those interviews with thirteen top students symbolize one of the simplest ways to get to grasp historic Gnosticism, the stream that has encouraged Dan Brown, Philip Pullman, Philip ok. Dick and The Matrix video clips. learn what the simplest minds need to say concerning the Gnostic sects, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Judas, Mary Magdalene, heresy, the origins of Gnosticism, and the unique teachings of Jesus.

Interviews with:
Elaine Pagels, Marvin Meyer, Bart Ehrman, Bruce Chilton, Stevan Davies, David Fideler, Birger Pearson, John Turner, Einar Thomassen, Jason BeDuhn, April DeConick, Karen King, Jane Schaberg.

“Gets on the Gnostics as they have been, no longer as many of us this present day would prefer them to be.”
Bruce Chilton, writer of how of Jesus and Rabbi Paul

“Aeon Byte is likely one of the most enjoyable and far-seeing courses on this planet of Webcasting.”
Richard Smoley, writer of Forbidden religion, The cube video game of Shiva, and internal Christianity

“A nice aid to all who own an curiosity in and/or devotion to the Gnostic culture. Warmly recommended!”
Stephan Hoeller, writer of Gnosticism: New mild at the historic culture of internal realizing and Jung and the misplaced Gospels

“An priceless source for these drawn to the historical past and carrying on with relevance of Gnosticism.”
Sean Martin, writer of The Gnostics: the 1st Christian Heretics, The Cathars, and The Knights Templar

“Sophia and her aeonic pals can be delighted.”
Marvin Meyer, writer of The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus, The Gospels of Mary

“You are maintaining on your fingers a Gnostic gem, a ebook that includes the wealthy knowledge of 13 world-renowned students who examine Gnosticism and the classical world.”
April D. DeConick, writer of The 13th Apostle

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The 13th Mage by Inelia Benz

The 13th Mage by Inelia Benz

By Inelia Benz

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Owen O’Neill had his plate complete. He had spent the earlier few centuries getting to know methods of having carry of the only merchandise what may make him the main strong Mage on the earth; an task which ate up each fiber of his being. Now he additionally needed to entire a quest which were pending for millennia. If that wasn’t adequate, he had overdone his most up-to-date physique rejuvenation approach and rather than changing into a strong 50 yr outdated, he was once someplace among puberty and younger maturity. Then in walked a pregnant Jennifer Stone. Jennifer was once not anything to jot down domestic approximately. She was once a regular mortal who proposal Mages existed in books and desktop video games. She used to be additionally a section at the thin part. Had he identified on the time that Jennifer used to be the first objective of the Shadow Ones, not just could he have walked clear of the entire deal, yet bought his apartment and moved continents with out forwarding tackle. completely. thankfully he didn't. a narrative of unconditional love and self attention.

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Angels and Other Mysteries of the Tree of Life by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Angels and Other Mysteries of the Tree of Life by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

By Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

‘Think for a minute approximately what electrical energy is and the way we use it, and you'll have a few concept, even if approximate, of God. We use electrical energy to heat and light our homes, and gear all types of machines and home equipment, yet we need to be very cautious of ways we deal with it, for you can still reason an coincidence. Direct touch with an electrical present may be deadly. as a way to harness and use it with no chance, we need to channel it via transformers. a similar could be stated of God: God is sort of a natural present of electrical energy which has to go through transformers earlier than it reaches us. And the transformers that God makes use of are the numerous luminous beings that populate the heavens, identified to culture because the choirs of angels or angelic hierarchies. it really is via them that we obtain divine existence; it truly is via them that we will be able to keep in touch with God.’

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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Kabbalah: A Love Story by Lawrence Kushner

Kabbalah: A Love Story by Lawrence Kushner

By Lawrence Kushner

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“This one is a gem.” —David Mamet, playwright

“Lawrence Kushner . . . revolutionizes our figuring out of God, and exhibits how we find our precise nature by way of establishing ourselves to love.” —Daniel C. Matt, writer of the fundamental Kabbalah

“Part damn-good storytelling, half mind-bending magic, Kabbalah isn’t quite a unique; it’s an event of Jewish mysticism—seductive, cerebral, and funny, advised in a unconditionally distinct and lovely voice.” —Debbie Danielpour Chapel

“Like all inventive non secular thinkers, Rabbi Kushner . . . blends humor, suspense, and the elegant in a modern amalgam of magical realism and the conventional non secular fable.” —Bernard Horn, writer of dealing with the Fires: Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua

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Sometime, someplace, a person is trying to find solutions . . .
. . . in a thirteenth-century castle
. . . on a educate to a focus camp
. . . in a brand new York urban apartment

Hidden in the binding of an historical textual content that has been handed down throughout the a while lies the reply to at least one of the heart’s everlasting questions. while the textual content falls into the arms of Rabbi Kalman Stern, he has no concept that his lonely lifetime of highbrow goals is ready to alter as soon as he opens the ebook. quickly later on, he meets astronomer Isabel Benveniste, a girl of technology who stirs his soul as no girl has for a few years. yet Kalman has a lot to profit sooner than he can free up his center and allow real love into his lifestyles. the most important lies within the mysterious record he reveals contained in the Zohar, the grasp textual content of the Kabbalah.

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